Andriod

So I’ve been on the Android N Public Beta for 2 weeks now. So far seems pretty stable on my Nexus 6P. It is so easy to enroll your devices as long as there supported. You just have to go to the public beta site and sign in and enroll your device.

I do like the actionable notifications for messaging and WhatsApp. As well as the notification shade is editable so you can change what shows up there.

I will keep my phone on the Public Beta unless something breaks it. If you no longer want to be on the public beta all you have to do is sign back into the public beta site and in enroll your device and it will be sent the current Android image.

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So as of last Friday Feb 19 2016 I moved back to Android as my main phone and mobile platform. I chose the Nexus 6P as my phone due to the fact that it’s the best all around phone. Great camera, performance, and battery life are all present on this device and the other factor is that it’s a Nexus device meaning all get all the Google Android updates before other manufacturers devices and I’ll get the monthly Security updates .

As will I bought the new 42mm Moto360 smartwatch which is a Android Wear device which means I get all my notifications and can reply and message people that message me. It’s a pretty good device overall good performance and battery life.

So I will update through the months with my thoughts on theses devices and operating systems.

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So about two weeks ago I dropped my Nexus 5 on the cement pavement and broke the screen. But it was still usable so I decided that it was time for a new phone and I chose to try out the HTC M8. So far I have to say overall it is a great upgrade.

Display

The display is a 5 inch 1080p LCD display with great viewing angles and very good colour accuracy as well as just being a great display to look at or watch things on for long periods of time. The display is also able to withstand being out in the rain with no problem working at all.

Camera

The camera is really great if you want to share pictures online or view them on screen but not the best for printing pictures or viewing on large computer or TV screens. The camera is still the same 4MB Ultra pixel as before with some new tricks and faster auto focusing the big new feature is that the camera allows you to focus on the foreground or background. Also the gallery app has and camera app have been reworked to be faster and easier to use. The camera also allows you to go into full manual mode and change settings like iso, exposure, white balance, and such.

Software

HTC Sense 6 is a very fine software overlay on Android Kitkat 4.4.2. Sense has been toned down and Blink feed is actually usable and can even be turned off. Alot of HTC apps have also been broken out and put in the Play store to be updated more frequently and allow the Play Edition HTC M8 to use them. Also keeping with the last HTC One there is still a very usable IR remote.

Performance

Overall not much to say here except that I have had no problems with using the phone browsing heavily online and streaming Netflix or YouTube or the like.

Battery life

Overall very impressed here I get on average 12 to 15 hours on this phone with very heavy use of listening to audio very heavy social media and browsing and lightweight gaming. By the end of the night it is in power saving mode which does turn off some things like auto sync and if you want to get even more use but very basic use you can turn on the extreme power savings which only lets you use the phone and messaging apps and a few more basic apps like calculator.

So this is a soft touch plastic phone that is surrounded by a 5 inch great looking 1080p LCD screen that is great to look at and use every day.

LTE & Battery Life

It’s my first phone with LTE and it is super fast when on LTE 24 down and 15 up on Telus. Battery life is pretty good I average about 9 hours with 2 hour screen on time. Using LTE and WiFi and pretty heavy use of the phone doing things like web browsing, texting, phone calls, listening to podcasts as well as social updates and some game play.

Camera

I find the camera is pretty good it does take a bit of time to focus which is my main complaint with it. Also for the extra colour depth and just plain better picture make sure you are using the HDR+ mode. Plus make sure you upload your pictures to Google+ sense it will Auto Awesome the pictures and video.

KitKat

I love Android 4.4 with its Google Experience Launcher and all the other little tweaks and the Hangouts Messaging. But with that messaging app it does not combine Hangout messages and SMS in the same contact conversions which is annoying.

Price

Is really good off contract from Google play 16GB $349CDN and 32GB is $399CDN.

Overall

It is a great phone that gives you the standard Google experience and will get updates quickly from Google.

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Well I have finally moved to an android device specifically the Telus Samsung Galaxy S2. It is a great phone and I love it especially sense I am a large user of Googles services It’s a great system sense you can customize almost everything about it such as the contact apps, phone app, messaging app and more. I have changed the launcher to be Go Launcher EX instead of TouchWiz sense I like the way Go does things and looks. I also use GO’s products for the phone, contacts, and messaging. Also I changed the default brower to be Dolphin HD and the music app to be Doubletwist. Overall it is a great device for people who use Google’s services or want to customize things more.